Dustin Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer, and in 1989 for Rain Man. He also played leading roles in the films Midnight Cowboy(1969) and Tootsie (1982). Hoffman had his breakthrough role as Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 classic film The Graduate.

In Luneburg Germany on this day in 1945, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.

Heinrich Himmler dead after committing suicide by means of a hidden cyanide capsule.

On this day in 1960, Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

On this day in 1934, in Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe (below).

Industrialist John D. Rockefeller died on this day in 1937.

Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002)

Sam Snead was a professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tourevents, including seven majors. He never won the U.S. Open, though he was runner-up four times.

Snead’s nickname was "Slammin’ Sammy", and he was admired by many for having the so-called "perfect swing," He died in Hot Springs, Virginia, in 2002 following complications from a stroke, four days before his 90th birthday.